Am I the only one when he reads Vatican News’ articles on synodality scratches his head and wonders what the hell are they talking about? These articles and those who are quoted have to be the most vapid people in all of Catholicism. It’s shocking, alarming and downright dispiriting!
EWTN News hasn’t taken over Vatican News yet, but let us pray that when it does, through its COO, Ms. Maria Montserrat Alvarado, the soon to be new Prefect of the Vatican’s Discastery for Communication, effective November 1st, I predict we will see less nothing burgers and word salads from Vatican News! Do I hear an “AMEN!?”
Press titles for nothing burgers and word salads, à la Kamala Harris, on syndality:
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Do you think it is just an excuse to wear a white cassock ?
No, no AMEN. Instead I offer a correction. Yous say, "I predict we will see less nothing burgers and word salads from Vatican News!"
The sentence should be, "I predict we will see FEWER nothing burgers and word salads from Vatican News!"
"Fewer" is used for things that can be counted. "There were fewer people at mass yesterday" instead of "There were less people at mass yesterday."
"Less" is used for things that can't be counted. "There was less water in the ditch after the country cleaned it" instead of "There was fewer water in the ditch after the county cleaned it."
K when are you going to become fluent in Latin, the language of Holy Mother the Church? Veterum Sapientia
TJM - When becoming fluent in Latin is beneficial to the people of God I serve or necessary for carrying out that service, I'll become fluent.
At present I could, easily, "read" the mass as Good Father ALLAN McDonald does. After all, it doesn't take any exceptional aptitude to learn standard Latin pronunciation.
A note regarding Latin that I think I have posted here before. Our seminary rector, a very intelligent man, PhD from Columbia University, was educated in the "Olde Style." Moral and Sacramental theology were taught in Latin with textbooks in Latin. We asked him once how he and his classmates accomplished this. He chuckled and went to his bookshelf, returning with the moral theology textbook they had used. Somewhere along the way, the ENTIRE BOOK had been translated into English, and that translation was written in pencil between the lines of Latin text.
So much for being fluent in Latin...
See George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language." This quote is well illustrated!
" As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated henhouse."
K, so you are defying St. John XXIII's Veterum Sapientia and the mandate of Vatican II to preserve the Latin Mass! Well, it appears the young are attracted to the Latin Liturgy, so if you want to be with it, learn Latin! Or is your target audience the double-knit dinosaurs residing in nursing homes?
TJM - For you "Being Obedient" is Job One. Doesn't matter the outcome, doesn't matter the circumstances. Remember those German soldiers whose defense was "I was just obeying orders"?
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